At this time of the year, our mailboxes and inboxes get flooded with Christmas appeals. Many of them feature heart-wrenching and guilt-inducing images of people in need, the idea being that they tug at…

Squaring the circle. A microfinance self help group meet in a village near Pune, Maharashtra.
Oxfam Australia3 octobre 2014

The introduction of hard-nosed private sector investment and the age-old pressures of social norms mean microfinance institutions are at risk of losing their social conscience – and both clients and staff…

Microfinance can buy you a bucket, but it won’t feed you forever.
DFAT17 février 2014

In 1976, a small experiment was conducted in the poverty-stricken and flood ravaged Bangladeshi village of Jobra. Professor Muhammad Yunus, a lecturer of Economics at Chittagong University visited the…